On combining complexity with toxicity

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If nuclear weapons exist there will someday be an unfortunate outlier circumstance where they get used and it will be tragic.

They must be gotten rid of.

If nuclear power plants exist there will be unfortunate outlier circumstances where meltdowns occur and they will be tragic.

They must be gotten rid of.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-missiles-target-cities-across-035609558.html

The attack put Europe’s largest nuclear plant at risk by knocking it off the power grid for hours before it was reconnected. Because nuclear plants need constant power to run cooling systems to avoid a meltdown, the latest threat to the Zaporizhzhia plant again raised the specter of a nuclear catastrophe.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/10/a-dozen-years-after-fukushima-nuclear-power-is-still-a-death-wish/

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Steven Welzer

The editor of Green Horizon Magazine, Steve has been a movement activist for many years (he was an original co-editor of DSA’s “Ecosocialist Review”).